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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 41
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To be throughly possessed of this truth, we are first to know, That there are 1two kinds of Gifts of Gods Spirit unto those of the Church. The Ancient Schoolmen, which distinction is still retained with the Papists, is, that there are Gratiae gratis datae, Favours freely given; which are bestowed, not so much for the good of them that have them, as of the good of others. Such were those extraordinary gifts of Gods Spirit in the primitive times, to work Miracles, to speak with tongues, &c. And such are also those common gifts of Prayer and Preaching, which many may have, and yet they be never the more holy. But as water-pots, that conveys water to the Garden, making it fruitful, while it self beareth no flowers at all; so are they. And truly, this is sadly to be considered by all the Ministers of the Gospel, whether the gifts God giveth them, be not for the good of others more then their own. As the Nurses of young Princes live upon excellent food, not for their own sake, but to give more excellent nourishment to their young ones.
To be throughly possessed of this truth, we are first to know, That there are 1two kinds of Gifts of Gods Spirit unto those of the Church. The Ancient Schoolmen, which distinction is still retained with the Papists, is, that there are Gratiae gratis datae, Favours freely given; which are bestowed, not so much for the good of them that have them, as of the good of others. Such were those extraordinary gifts of Gods Spirit in the primitive times, to work Miracles, to speak with tongues, &c. And such are also those common gifts of Prayer and Preaching, which many may have, and yet they be never the more holy. But as water-pots, that conveighs water to the Garden, making it fruitfull, while it self beareth no flowers at all; so are they. And truly, this is sadly to be considered by all the Ministers of the Gospel, whether the gifts God giveth them, be not for the good of others more then their own. As the Nurses of young Princes live upon excellent food, not for their own sake, but to give more excellent nourishment to their young ones.
- 1Of the distinction of the Schoolmen of spiritual Gifts. 1. Gratiae gratis datae.